WELCOME TO THE FAMILY AND
CAREGIVER TOOLKIT
Welcome to the National Family Support Technical Assistance Center’s (NFSTAC) Family Support Toolkit. The purpose of this toolkit is to share a collection of family-friendly resources, videos, and tip sheets to assist families on best practices related to mental health and substance use challenges across the lifespan. We believe families are the experts. They understand the environment and the dynamics in which their children and family members live. When families have access to resources and information when engaging in services, families and providers are better able to work as a team.
Key resources to understand family-driven language
Our Mission
The National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) is committed to providing training and technical assistance using a lifespan approach that focuses on mental health and/or substance use challenges.
Our approach is anchored by the underlying principles that families play a vital role in supporting their loved ones and are the experts regarding making a plan to support their family.
Our Vision
The overall goal of the National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) is to provide innovative, flexible, and responsive training and technical assistance.
Our 4 specific goals, which you can learn more about here, are:
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To Inform the Workforce
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To Increase Access to Resources
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To Provide Family Engagement and Support Training
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To Increase Knowledge
Our Commitment
At NFSTAC, our commitment is to rediscover our capacity for lifting up all members of our society, no matter their lived experiences, challenges, or personal traumas. By focusing on people’s potential—rather than their differences---we can begin to build stronger and more inclusive neighborhoods. We believe that true equity is the result of vibrant communities and responsive systems that promote self-reliance and interdependence and that celebrate diversity.
Adapted from Adler University (2023)
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This product was made possible because of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
The National Family Support Technical Assistance Center Grant #1H79F6000160-Fam-CoE is supported by SAMHSA of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award with 100 percent funded by SAMHSA/HHS.
The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of,
nor an endorsement, by SAMHSA/HHS, or the U.S. Government. The National Federation of Families and the
National Family Support Technical Assistance Center do not endorse any product presented.
